Part-time librarian Aurora ?Roe? Teagarden by no means cherished Detective Sergeant Jack Burns, yet she additionally by no means desired to see him lifeless? in particular no longer dropped from a airplane correct into her personal yard. but if different unusual issues take place round her, starting from odd (her irascible cat turns up donning a crimson ribbon) to violent (her assistant on the library is attacked) to probably lethal (her former lover is stabbed), she needs to decipher the private message within the insanity sooner than it?s too overdue.

It used to be just a couple of weeks in the past that Aphra Connolly’s existence replaced thoroughly. She have been residing a quiet lifestyles on her father’s secluded island hotel, till Seth Mulo became up and stole her middle . . . and supplied details that led her to discover her mother in Seattle. however the reunion isn’t particularly what she anticipated.

At the frontlines of the conflict of the bulge, another way referred to as attempting on bathing matches within the communal dressing room at Loehmann's, freelance author Jaine Austen makes a brand new good friend - a wannabe actress named Pam - and will get a brand new activity: sharpening up Pam's bare-bones resume. Their feeling of connection is mutual, so Pam invitations Jaine to affix The PMS membership - a women's help workforce that meets as soon as per week over guacamole and margaritas.

Maybe. I didn’t want to make a song and dance about it when Padgett Lanier was here, but the plane circled to get the drop right. The body could have been dumped in any of the fields around here and lain for days with no one the wiser and no way to trace the plane. ” I pointed down, as if our bed had been the target. “It was a threat against the protectee, as you call him,” Martin said calmly. He seemed to feel better about the implications of Jack Burns ending up in our yard now. ’ ” “Could be.

Harris draws the guilty and the innocent into an engrossing tale while inventing a heroine as capable and potentially complex as P. D. ” —Wilmington (NC) Star-News “Harris debuts a series that just might surpass all her others in popularity . . ” —Booklist “Fast pacing, excellent character development, and a strong story line . . ” —Midwest Book Review Praise for Charlaine Harris’s Lily Bard Mysteries “Lily Bard [is] the equal of Kay Scarpetta, Kinsey Mill-hone, and V. I. ” —Midwest Book Review “Lily Bard gives as good as she gets.

My new navy blue dress with the white trim. I’d just bought it at Short ’N Sweet in Atlanta—a petite shop, I’m four eleven—and I glanced at the label, gloating over the smaller size I’d been buying lately, before I pulled it over my head. Living with a health- and exercise-conscious man like Martin, and having the athletic Angel as a companion, had had a happy result as far as my figure was concerned. I’d even gone to the beauty shop my mother patronizes, Clip Casa, and gotten Benita to streak my hair.